There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.
EDDIE VAN HALENEvery song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
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I’m the one in the band that said I’m not going on tour unless we do a record.
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I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!
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We’re musicians. We make music for a living. It’s that simple. Nothing else matters.
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I’m just a normal schmo like anyone else.
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I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.
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A good producer brings out the best in the artist he’s working with. You shouldn’t be able to listen to something and say, ‘So-and-so produced this album.
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It’s always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you’re the same, and they hate you if you’re different.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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Nirvana was huge, but it didn’t appeal to everyone.
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You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.
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I think Clapton is brilliant. He’s the only one who moved me. The only one who made me want to play the guitar.
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A guitar is just theoretically built wrong. Each string is an interval of fourths, and then the B string is off. Theoretically, that’s not right, all the strings should be off.
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Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let’s put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don’t.
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Bass is for people who can’t play guitar.
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